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Trustees
appointed,
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any who shall refuse or neglect to qualify, and act as trustee,
when elected and chosen pursuant to the direction of this
act ; and the aforesaid persons, or the majority of them, being
sworn as .aforesaid, shall be constituted and qualified as trustees
for the poor of their said county, and as such are hereby in-
vested with full power and authority, as a body politic, to plead
and be impleaded, to sue and be sued, to defend and be defended,
to answer and be answered, by the name of the trustees for the
poor of Kent county, in all and every cause, complaint and
action, real, personal or mixed, of whatever kind or nature it
shall bo, in any court of judicature within this state, and by
that name they and any of them, and their successors, shall and
they are hereby enabled to take, hold, possess and enjoy, any
gift, donation or present, which shall or may hereafter be given,
devised or bequeathed, by any person or persons whatsoever,
to them, or any of them, for or towards the support and main-
tenance of the poor in the said county ; and they, or any of
them, may receive by way of subscription, any sum or sums of
money which shall or may be given for the better and more
speedy promoting the benefit and good by this act intended ;
and that they have full power, authority and ability, to pur-
chase, take, hold, receive, enjoy and have, to them and their
successors for ever, any lands, tenements and hereditaments,
not exceeding the yearly value of five hundred pounds current
money, and are hereby empowered and authorized to use one
common seal in their business relating to the said corporation,
and the same, if necessary, to change and alter ; and that the
said persons so incorporated, and their successors, shall be the
true and undoubted trustees, in perpetual succession, for ever,
to be continued in way and manner hereafter specified, with
full and absolute power, liberty and authority, in the making
and ordaining such laws, orders and rules, for the better reliev-
ing, regulating and setting the poor to work, and punishing
vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other offenders, and for the
good government of the said alms and work-house in their said
county, as to them and their successors shall, from time to
lime, think most fit and requisite, all which shall be observed
by the overseer of such alms and work -house, and by all poor,
beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders, in such alms
and work-house, under the penalties therein contained ; Pro-
vided always^ that the said rules, laws and orders, be no ways
contrary to the laws of this state.
Stc. 4. Merged in 1830, ch. 151.
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